Chapter 181: Opening Ceremony
In the Great Hall, countless candles stood in mid-air, illuminating the four long tables filled with people, illuminating the golden plates and goblets that glittered. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The ceiling was enchanted to reflect the bright stars in the sky outside.
Beyond a dense black peaked Hogwarts hat, Roger's empty head easily attracts the attention of others.
I'm so sorry... Last year, I didn't develop the 'good habit' of eating and wearing hats.
In the middle aisle, this year's freshmen lined up and walked into the auditorium with trepidation.
Roger spotted Ginny at a glance, and the Weasleys' characteristic red hair was really conspicuous.
At the same time, Professor McGonagall, whose hair was tightly tied into a bun, placed the dirty, patched Sorting Hat on the stool in front of the freshmen.
One by one, the freshmen were called up and placed on four different long tables with their hats.
Roger heard Professor McGonagall call out the unusually familiar name, "Luna Lovegood." ”
The boy looked up and saw a waist-length back with pale gold mixed with brown.
She sat on the stool, her silver-gray eyes were a little prominent, and her eyes were not as nervous as the other freshmen who didn't know where to look, but were a little hazy, making her look in a trance.
And she wears a pair of turnip-shaped earrings on her ears, and a necklace made of butterbeer stoppers.
Roger smacked his teeth: "Piercing ears at such a young age... How much it hurts......"
According to historical inertia, Luna was assigned to Ravenclaw, but she received much less applause than Ginny, whose twin brother could top a third of Ravenclaw.
When the freshman sorting was over, Dumbledore stood up and spoke.
"Welcome!" he said, his beard glistening with the light of the candles, "welcome to Hogwarts for the new term! I'm going to have to say a few more words......"
Old Deng cleared his throat and continued: "I think most of you have also found out that Professor Lockhart was invited to fill the void in the Defence Against the Dark Arts course. ”
Gentleman Girod Lockhart stood up and smiled brightly, revealing his eight shining teeth.
The screams and cheers of the girls almost lifted the roof, and even Hermione, who was sitting next to Roger, was so excited—she had been completely absorbed in Lockhart's novel since returning from the Blott bookstore.
Roger also flipped through it... I have to say that those plots are really wonderful and written with ups and downs, and there is a reason why people can be popular.
However, many of the professors in the classroom had stiff expressions, and they didn't like him very much......
Dumbledore had to fire a few small sparks to stop this: "I can see you're all excited... Then get along well in the future teaching, and try to stuff a little more knowledge into your little heads......"
"Also, I don't want to miss a new student with a broken arm and leg... With old classmates, students are strictly forbidden to approach in the forbidden forest. ”
"Now... Let's eat!" Lao Deng waved his arm, and the four long tables were instantly filled with all kinds of delicacies.
All the teachers and students were moving, but only the Gryffindor table was the most intense, except for the new students, no one spoke, and one by one they desperately threw food on their plates.
"What are you all doing? haven't you eaten in a year?" Ginny, who was sitting with her brothers, looked at her in confusion, but was gagged by the twins' chicken legs.
Two tall and thin men looked next to their sister on the left and right: "You just started school this year, and you don't know the horrors that have shrouded the Gryffindor table last year,"
"If you take it lightly," George added a large piece of pie to the plate.
"If you let your guard down," Fred snapped.
"The Shadow of Terror Will Strike"
"He opened his mouth wide open,"
"Sweeping all the food you can see, he's ......"
"Table Breaker – Roger Collins. The twins shouted in unison.
Roger leaned out halfway from the other end of the table, "Hey, I've heard you all, I'm just going to let you eat for twenty seconds......"
"Oh no! the Terminator is going berserk... Watch out, everyone!" Fred shouted exaggeratedly, then laughed with George.
Ever since the elves in the back kitchen figured out Roger's appetite, the Gryffindor cubs had never been hungry.
This kind of formation like a great enemy has been preserved, so last year from time to time he went berserk, and no one could eat a few bites without getting off the table.
In Roger's words, 'to develop the spirit of Gryffindor'......
At the end of the meal, dessert was served, and it was only then that the Gryffindor table began to get busy, and the old and new students began to chat.
"There is still a comparison to find out, when you were at home, you said that you had a small amount of food, and you really didn't see it... It was obvious as soon as you arrived at school. Harry said, eating a huge piece of pudding.
"yes, only a third of the table," Roger sighed, took two large glasses ......of peanut chocolate ice cream, and handed Hermione one.
When the last piece of dessert disappeared from the golden plate, Dumbledore said that everyone should go to bed.
Roger and the three of them hugged the marble staircase along with the crowd of Gryffindor students, and Hermione and Harry looked tired, making them a little drowsy after an afternoon of riding and eating a lot of food.
But there are more corridors and stairs waiting for them, and the hidden entrance to Gryffindor Tower is on the eighth floor.
But even so, some of the girls who had been climbing the stairs were still chattering excitedly, discussing Professor Lockhart's charming demeanor, warm smile, and heroic fighting style in the book.
Roger rolled his eyes, the only thing he wanted to know was what brand of toothpaste Lockhart used, and the teeth that came out of the brush were all reflective......
In the portrait at the entrance of the cave, the fat lady in her pink pajamas asks, "Password?"
"Honeyeater!" Percy shouted in the crowd, "The new password is Honeyeater!"
"Oh, no......" Roger heard Neville's mournful moans.
The boys yawned through the holes in the portraits, walked through the common room, and walked up the spiral staircase back to their beds in their dormitories.
Roger took Pandora from the box and carried it to the common room, and after a golden flash, the boy took out the Slytherin locket from the box.
In Pandora's box form, the interior is a separate space, which Roger came to when the wand was deformed in it last school year and was still unharmed, and subsequent experiments confirmed it.
It's a pity that the size of the space is only as big as the box, how good it would be if it could hold ten tons or eight tons of things, and when it was full of iron lumps, it would be enough to lift the lid and keep it and press it into a meat puree.